Fuck. Why is it so hard to vote on this one? I hate solos. The drums are the only instrument in which the solo has ever appealed to me, but even then... There's something really dorky about it. But I love the sound of the drums, so much so that it's hard for me not to listen at least a little bit.

I don't know... NC. Waffle factor of 9.

*Edit: I'm going to justify my NC vote, by the fact that you can play a dorky drum solo and still make people dance. That is definitely not crap.

TomWanderer wrote:I saw a band a few weeks ago that was very interesting, I was really into the music. I went to their merch table and they had a cassette, a t-shirt, and a book of poetry. I bought nothing.

I have never been impressed by the jerk-off sessions Bonham did, despite how much I love him as an ensemble player. I once listened to the entire 30 minute drum solo he did on that How The West Was Won live album. I will never do that again. His shorter drum solos are great though, like the one at the end of Rock N Roll

Jack DeJohnette did some fucking amazing solos with Miles' electric band in the early 70's, but even those went on too long.

I actually rather liked Ringo's solo on Abbey Road.

We are all Romans unconscious collective/We are all Romans we live to regret it

Well, Elvin Jone's solos on any Coltrane record I have ever heard completely out shine the other musicians and speak in a way that I haven't heard since.

Rohan let loose the most unique drum "solo" I have ever heard the last time I saw MY DISCO. There was something very Australian, higher-powerish about it, something tribal (I know, I know) and important...it was completely void of the dirty iPhone-bongo app-dreads and autographs vibe. It was a pleasure to see and hear that live.

Drums in itself are a very important instrument to me even though I can't play them well. It's a difficult instrument to make stand out so whenever I hear a drummer that just steals the show, I give him/her 100x more praise.

All solos for any instrument are usually crap, but drum solos are way less annoying then guitar/bass/vocal/keyboard solos. Jesus.

Mickey D from Motörhead's drum solo normally appears about 2 songs before the end of a standard set. It lasts just enough time to go to the lavatory, queue at the bar and then return to a convenient spot in the crowd.

Hughie Flint does a drum solo on John Mayall’s Blues Breakers version of “What’d I Say” – that I regularly play for the laughs. It is so bad. It starts off ok and then it’s almost like he thinks they’ve stopped recording so he starts sound checking all his drums in turn - BOOMBOOM, Tishtish, bombbomb, tinktinktink tink, BOOM, BOOMtish, BOOMtish – this just goes on forever.

My guess is that the rest of the band had left the room or had turned their backs on him and didn’t realize he was still going. When they start up again post drum spazz they all go into Day tripper for a few bars so it makes it sound like they really did just stop playing but Hughie carried on.

Anyway – I recommend that if your day needs cheering up.

In general I like a good solo though.

Also, can we all agree never to mention again that I own the Beano album. Sorry PRF.